Example sentences of "[noun] rather [conj] [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are interested in what new machinery is available , certainly , but at the moment it 's a case of window-shopping rather than parting with hard cash . |
| 2 | The biotechnology companies would then directly buy a licence for a particular technique rather than negotiating with individual universities . |
| 3 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
| 4 | A strongly built , blue-eyed young man who had chosen to live with his father in Detroit rather than stay with his mother and grandfather in the Bekaa , Khalid Nazir was a regular commuter between Beirut and Detroit . |
| 5 | Lean with your weight rather than pulling with your arms . |
| 6 | Teaching without preaching , expanding a child 's horizons without risk , often replacing a parent rather than working with one , is a minefield of responsibility . |
| 7 | We have already indicated that CD-ROM is essentially a professional medium with only marginal appeal in the consumer market so DVI can also be seen addressing this sector rather than competing with CD-I . |
| 8 | Nonetheless , she was somewhat freer than the Newham development officer to concentrate on putting in support worker help rather than liaising with other services . |
| 9 | This week it was revealed that an 11-year-old girl , who wants to stay with foster parents rather than live with her mother and four brothers and sisters , has launched a similar legal action . |
| 10 | In this latter group of patients it may be more efficient to proceed directly to a trial of amiodarone or ICD placement rather than to proceed with a lengthy course of serial drug testing . |
| 11 | The prospect of designing among nature rather than battling with cement and glass and housing estates appealed enormously . |
| 12 | But there can be no doubt that higher education is largely a mental rather than manual occupation : in terms of the classification in the US Department of Labor 's Dictionary of Occupational Titles , it involves work with ideas rather than work with people or work with things . |
| 13 | The role of psychotropic medication in such cases should be made clear to the patient , particularly where medication is only a means of assisting coping behaviour rather than dealing with patients ' fundamental problems . |
| 14 | ‘ You mean the way he walked out right through the wall rather than bothering with the doorway , chief ? ’ |
| 15 | I believe that those sexual practices which fail to recognise the essential humanity of other people are bad ; the man who rapes an unwilling partner , the individual who takes delight in the infliction of pain upon a partner who does not desire it , or the one who forces another into any sexual practice which is obnoxious to him or her is using the " partner " as an object rather than interacting with him or her as a human being . |
| 16 | But writing the first edition in the midst of the Common Market discussions of 1972 , it seemed appropriate to remark that Britain decided some 200 million years ago to remain with Europe rather than depart with North America . |
| 17 | Instead , they want to waste the next decade poring over the details of economic and monetary union rather than dealing with the real issues confronting Europe . |
| 18 | But quite unlike car manufacturers , Japanese computer makers began by exporting the high end of the product line rather than beginning with lower-priced models and trading up . |
| 19 | Even in private , many women will give what they feel to be the ‘ correct ’ answer rather than respond with complete honesty . |
| 20 | The GOTO statement makes BBCBASIC(Z80) jump to a specified line number rather than continuing with the next statement in the program . |
| 21 | While he advised them to refrain from indulging in personal abuse of Jews … he exhorted them not to retreat in the face of Police persecution and declared that , if necessary , all Fascist speakers should be prepared to face imprisonment rather than comply with the dictum of the authorities that they were not to attack Jewry . |
| 22 | But of all of these , Integrated Pollution Control is the only significant measure aimed at preventing pollution at source rather than dealing with it once it has reached the environment . |
| 23 | This is fighting pain rather than dealing with it . |
| 24 | At the same time , Italy , which had to import some 90 per cent of its coal needs , preferred to buy cheaper , mainly American , coal on the open market rather than deal with its ECSC partners . |
| 25 | The disputes in the councils which followed the election of Sinn Fein representatives in 1985 has made it clear that loyalists are willing to close down councils rather than work with Sinn Fein , and the younger generation of DUP activists has been fully active in the promotion of that position . |